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Summer Reading List (2018)

"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gives powerful voice to the conviction that personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. In this, his arguably most influential work, Bonhoeffer uses the text of the Sermon on the Mount in Mathew 5-7 to challenge the “cheap grace” of easy spirituality and to cast a compelling vision for true discipleship. See ISBN:978-0684815008 on Amazon

The Gospel Comes with a House Key (Rosaria Butterfield)

Rosaria Butterfield was once a tenured professor of English who identified as a lesbian and worked to advance the cause of LGBT equality. After her conversion to Christ in 1999, she came to see the sinfulness of having any identity apart from Him. With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same “radical, ordinary hospitality” to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God’s tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives—helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like. See ISBN:978-1433557866 on Amazon

Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World (Mike Cosper)

When we're young, it's easy to believe in the supernatural, the mysterious, the enchanted. But as we grow older, we learn to be more "rational" and more confident that reality is merely what we can see. Even as Christians who believe in the resurrection, we live as if miracles and magic have been drained from the world. Exquisitely written with thoughtful practices woven throughout, this book will feed your soul and help you recapture the wonder of your Christian walk. See ISBN:978-0830845064 on Amazon

Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)

Modeled after a childhood favorite of Lewis’s: H.G. Wells’s anti-imperialist First Men in the Moon (1901), this is the first and best-known entry in the critically acclaimed “Space Trilogy”. Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom who is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra – a world that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a compelling and mysterious Sci-Fi classic. See ISBN:978-0743234900 on Amazon

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock (Gregory Thornbury)

Hailed by Billboard as “the most important songwriter since Paul Simon” and who’s music would go on to inspire members of bands as diverse as U2, The Pixies, and Guns ‘N Roses, Larry Norman personified the conflicts at the dawn of America’s culture wars. In Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music?, Gregory Alan Thornbury draws on unparalleled access to Norman’s personal papers and archives to narrate the conflicts that defined the singer’s life, as he crisscrossed the developing fault lines between Evangelicals and mainstream American culture—friction that continues to this day. See ISBN:978-1101907078 on Amazon

This is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel (Trevin Wax)

In This is Our Time, Trevin Wax provides snapshots of twenty-first-century American Life in order to help Christians understand the times. By analyzing our common beliefs and practices (smartphone habits, entertainment intake, and our views of shopping, sex, marriage, politics, and life’s purpose), Trevin helps us see through the myths of society to the hope of the gospel. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin hosts a blog at The Gospel Coalition and regularly contributes to "The Washington Post," "Religion News Service," "World," and "Christianity Today," which named him one of 33 millennials shaping the next generation of evangelicals. See ISBN:978-1433648472 on Amazon

None Like Him: 10 Ways God is Different from Us (and Why That’s a Good Thing) (Jen Wilkin)

God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign, infinite, and incomprehensible. We're not. And that's a good thing. Inspired by classic works like A. W. Pink’s The Attributes of God and A. W. Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy, Wilkin surveys 10 of God’s “incommunicable” attributes—characteristics he doesn’t share with humans. A book that benefits men and women alike, Jen Wilkin’s None Like Him was awarded the 2016 book of the year in “Bible and Theology” by The Gospel Coalition. See ISBN:978-1433549830 on Amazon

Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life (Jeff Vanderstelt)

Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves and to others) and immerse ourselves in its truths. Only then will we start to see how everything in our lives, from the mundane to the magnificent, is transformed by the hope of the gospel. See ISBN: 978-1433546037 on Amazon

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